Support Engineer Contracts in the Midlands

Support Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Support Engineer daily rate in the Midlands is £200 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 49 61
Rank change year-on-year 0 +12 +19
Contract jobs requiring a Support Engineer 93 130 186
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.33% 4.00% 3.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.62% 4.23% 3.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 72 104
10th Percentile £123 £146 £128
25th Percentile £145 £184 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £260 £194
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +34.19% +15.67%
75th Percentile £304 £350 £278
90th Percentile £355 £475 £421
England median daily rate £215 £250 £213
% change year-on-year -14.00% +17.65% +1.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 11 20
10th Percentile - £15.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.33 £16.13
Median hourly rate £22.50 £20.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £24.18 £22.36 £18.38
90th Percentile - £23.75 £23.78
England median hourly rate £23.00 £20.60 £17.60
% change year-on-year +11.65% +17.05% +10.83%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the Midlands with a recognized job title 2,572 3,071 4,819
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.15% 94.52% 95.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,742 2,168 3,508
10th Percentile £213 £228 £212
25th Percentile £336 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £475 £468
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% +1.60% +15.43%
75th Percentile £587 £594 £569
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 108 155
10th Percentile £11.83 £12.50 £11.55
25th Percentile £14.13 £14.52 £14.61
Median hourly rate £19.06 £20.41 £17.70
Median % change year-on-year -6.60% +15.31% +18.00%
75th Percentile £35.00 £30.00 £23.63
90th Percentile £52.01 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.21%

Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings that featured Support Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Support Engineer in the Midlands

Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Support Engineer in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Support Engineer in the Midlands

Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Support Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Support Engineer in the Midlands

Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Support Engineer in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Support Engineer in the Midlands

Support Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Support Engineer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands -19 49 £225 -13.46% 29
East Midlands +16 44 £200 -33.11% 35
Support Engineer
England

Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Support Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Midlands region featuring Support Engineer in the job title.

1 56 (60.22%) Windows
2 35 (37.63%) Active Directory
3 32 (34.41%) Microsoft 365
4 30 (32.26%) Social Skills
5 28 (30.11%) Windows 10
6 22 (23.66%) Security Cleared
6 22 (23.66%) WAN
7 20 (21.51%) SCCM
8 17 (18.28%) Customer Service
9 16 (17.20%) Cisco
10 15 (16.13%) Microsoft
10 15 (16.13%) DNS
11 14 (15.05%) Juniper
11 14 (15.05%) Windows Server
12 13 (13.98%) VPN
12 13 (13.98%) PKI
13 12 (12.90%) BGP
13 12 (12.90%) MPLS
13 12 (12.90%) IPsec
13 12 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (11.83%) Linux
15 10 (10.75%) Load Balancing
15 10 (10.75%) Windows 7
15 10 (10.75%) Microsoft Intune
15 10 (10.75%) Junos
16 9 (9.68%) Windows Server 2012
16 9 (9.68%) Driving Licence
16 9 (9.68%) Public Sector
16 9 (9.68%) Degree
16 9 (9.68%) SharePoint

Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (9.68%) SharePoint
2 5 (5.38%) JBoss
2 5 (5.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.08%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 5 (5.38%) MS Visio
2 3 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 32 (34.41%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (8.60%) Azure
3 5 (5.38%) AWS
3 5 (5.38%) OpenShift
4 2 (2.15%) WhatsApp
5 1 (1.08%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 22 (23.66%) WAN
2 15 (16.13%) DNS
3 13 (13.98%) VPN
4 12 (12.90%) BGP
4 12 (12.90%) IPsec
4 12 (12.90%) MPLS
5 10 (10.75%) Junos
6 9 (9.68%) LAN
7 8 (8.60%) DHCP
7 8 (8.60%) Ethernet
8 7 (7.53%) Firewall
8 7 (7.53%) SD-WAN
8 7 (7.53%) TCP/IP
8 7 (7.53%) Wireless
9 5 (5.38%) Cisco Nexus
9 5 (5.38%) Ethereal
9 5 (5.38%) Wireshark
10 4 (4.30%) VLAN
11 3 (3.23%) VoIP
11 3 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.38%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (5.38%) RDBMS
1 5 (5.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (8.60%) JIRA
2 5 (5.38%) Bitbucket Server
2 5 (5.38%) CA Release Automation
2 5 (5.38%) Git
2 5 (5.38%) Jenkins
2 5 (5.38%) SonarQube
2 5 (5.38%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (5.38%) TeamCity
General
1 30 (32.26%) Social Skills
2 9 (9.68%) Public Sector
3 5 (5.38%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (5.38%) Manufacturing
3 5 (5.38%) Telecoms
4 4 (4.30%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.15%) Automotive
5 2 (2.15%) Legal
6 1 (1.08%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.08%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.08%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.38%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (5.38%) Spring Boot
2 3 (3.23%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.98%) PKI
2 9 (9.68%) Driving Licence
3 7 (7.53%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.30%) iPad
5 3 (3.23%) Clustering
5 3 (3.23%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.08%) Blackberry
7 1 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.08%) SCADA
7 1 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 56 (60.22%) Windows
2 28 (30.11%) Windows 10
3 14 (15.05%) Windows Server
4 11 (11.83%) Linux
5 10 (10.75%) Windows 7
6 9 (9.68%) Windows Server 2012
7 7 (7.53%) Apple iOS
7 7 (7.53%) Mac OS
8 6 (6.45%) Windows Vista
9 5 (5.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (3.23%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (2.15%) Android
12 1 (1.08%) Mac OS X
12 1 (1.08%) Unix
12 1 (1.08%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (18.28%) Customer Service
2 12 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (10.75%) Load Balancing
4 7 (7.53%) ITIL
5 6 (6.45%) Computer Science
5 6 (6.45%) Customer Requirements
5 6 (6.45%) DevOps
6 5 (5.38%) Build Automation
6 5 (5.38%) CI/CD
6 5 (5.38%) Code Quality
6 5 (5.38%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (5.38%) Deployment Automation
6 5 (5.38%) Microservices
6 5 (5.38%) Migration
6 5 (5.38%) Mobile Device Management
6 5 (5.38%) Proactive Monitoring
7 4 (4.30%) Asset Management
7 4 (4.30%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (4.30%) Decision-Making
7 4 (4.30%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 6 (6.45%) PowerShell
2 5 (5.38%) Perl
2 5 (5.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 22 (23.66%) Security Cleared
2 9 (9.68%) Degree
3 7 (7.53%) CCNA
3 7 (7.53%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (5.38%) SC Cleared
5 4 (4.30%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.15%) Dell Certification
7 1 (1.08%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.30%) ISO 9000
2 2 (2.15%) SLA
3 1 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 35 (37.63%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.38%) Docker
3 4 (4.30%) Hyper-V
3 4 (4.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.23%) BitLocker
5 2 (2.15%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (21.51%) SCCM
2 10 (10.75%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (6.45%) Autotask
4 5 (5.38%) Kibana
4 5 (5.38%) Kubernetes
4 5 (5.38%) OpenView
4 5 (5.38%) Progress Chef
5 3 (3.23%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (3.23%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (1.08%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 16 (17.20%) Cisco
2 15 (16.13%) Microsoft
3 14 (15.05%) Juniper
4 9 (9.68%) Apple
5 6 (6.45%) VMware
6 5 (5.38%) AppDynamics
6 5 (5.38%) Fujitsu
6 5 (5.38%) Red Hat
6 5 (5.38%) Splunk
7 4 (4.30%) HP
7 4 (4.30%) ServiceNow
8 3 (3.23%) Datto
8 3 (3.23%) Remedy
9 2 (2.15%) Aruba
9 2 (2.15%) Dell
9 2 (2.15%) Sun
10 1 (1.08%) BMC
10 1 (1.08%) CA
10 1 (1.08%) Citrix
10 1 (1.08%) NetApp